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Re: [PLUG] Filesystem or File system
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Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
| Filesystem.
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| Its one of those words who's colloquial usage has made the concatenated
| variety the default through so much repetition, and indeed, makes it
| strange to see it the "normal English language" way. Spinlock, pathname,
| watchdog, filesystem, etc... all in the same boat.
Just to play around with words a bit (not to disagree with you for the
sake of disagreeing with you ;) ) I would vote that technically it is
"file system" for the simple reason that filesystem has not been
accepted as a word by any dictionary I could find. On the other hand,
"pathname", for example, is listed in the dictionary as a valid word.
Personally I think you can call it whatever you want as long as it is
obvious what you are talking about... but it's always fun to play with
words.
Jim
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